Football
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Quarterback
If there’s one question that might shape Nebraska’s entire season, it’s this: does Dylan Raiola make that true sophomore jump from talented freshman to tone-setter? The signs point in the right direction. He arrived with five-star credentials, flashed the arm talent...
Ravi Lulla’s Four Must-Win Games for Nebraska Football
Hurrdat Sports Live host Ravi Lulla lays out four games he believes Nebraska has to win in 2025—and why each one matters beyond the box score. From the neutral-site opener to rivalry week, his list focuses on tone-setting, response tests and beating the programs...
Cincinnati Up First for Nebraska Football
No doubt you have the big picture by now. Matt Rhule’s third team at Nebraska opens against Cincinnati Thursday night in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, kickoff slated for 8 p.m. CT. It will be a “home game-lite,” Rhule said Tuesday. Husker fans will pack the stadium...
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Defensive Back
Nebraska’s defensive backs might be the most intriguing group on the roster this fall, and it starts with the mix: proven starters who’ve played a lot of meaningful snaps alongside young, hungry guys who look ready to push every day. Four of the five primary starters...
Hail Varsity Historical: Not Pretty in Lubbock, but a Nebraska Football Victory
Seven seconds into fifth-ranked Nebraska football's sixth game in 1996, in Lubbock, Texas, Husker weak side linebacker Terrell Farley picked up a Byron Hanspard fumble and ran 21 yards for a touchdown. Seven seconds. The first play from scrimmage. Such a play right...
Nebraska Natives Shine During Fall Camp
If you’ve been keeping an eye on Nebraska’s fall practices, one story keeps popping: homegrown Huskers are making noise. Some are breaking through for the first time. Others, who’ve been banged up or overlooked, are forcing their way back into the conversation. Here’s...
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Tight End
Nebraska’s tight end room is homegrown central—and it matters. The top of the depth chart is all in-state talent with three very different tools: a true do-everything tight end, a versatile chess piece who invites trickery, and a pass-catch mismatch built to stress...
Dylan Raiola Carrying on Family Legacy with Nebraska Football
For the Raiolas, Nebraska football is family business. Heading into his sophomore year as the Huskers’ starting quarterback, Dylan Raiola is looking to build on that legacy in Lincoln. Dylan's father, Dominic Raiola, was a two-year starter at center for the Huskers....
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Defensive Line
Nebraska’s defensive line might be the most exciting swing factor on the roster this fall because the group blends real versatility with the kind of short-area juice that shows up as disruption. Yes, Ty Robinson is gone, and that’s a big presence to replace, but the...
Kansas City Huskers Excited to head Home for Nebraska Football Season Opener
The 2025 season opener will serve as a homecoming for several members of the Nebraska football team when the Huskers take on Cincinnati at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Junior defensive back Jamir Conn, senior linebacker Dasan McCullough, freshman running back...
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Linebacker
Nebraska’s linebackers might be the most interesting swing piece on the defense this fall because the room blends proven age with raw, disruptive upside. At the center of it is Vincent Shavers, a favorite inside the program whose profile screams havoc. If he hits his...
Nebraska Football Needs to Depend on “Watering Bamboo”
When you think of Tom Osborne’s national championship teams with Nebraska football, what players first come to mind? Tommie Frazier? Grant Wistrom? Lawrence Phillips? Ahman Green? How about the offensive lines? The “Pipeline” nickname was established in 1994, featured...
Huskers Football Single Digits Set the Standard for 2025 Season
Single digits in Nebraska’s locker room aren’t fashion—they’re a standard. This year’s selections point to rising youth and instant-impact transfers setting the tone, with a headliner in the secondary and a few culture carriers on both sides of the ball. Here’s how...
Former Chief Terry Bradden Returning to Arrowhead for First Game with Nebraska Football
Terry Bradden’s first game as Nebraska’s defensive line coach will take place in the stadium he called home for eight years. The Florida native worked on the Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff from 2017 to 2024, and on Aug. 28, he’ll return to Arrowhead Stadium with...
Hail Varsity Digest | Back on Track, 1996 Nebraska Football Bounces Baylor | 8-19-25
The Nebraska football defense posted a shutout, and the offense scored 49 points against 3-1 Baylor on a 75-degree afternoon in mid-October 1996, before a Homecoming crowd of 75,478 at Memorial Stadium. “We played against the best team in America,” said Baylor Coach...
Raiola Honing Leadership, Mobility for Second-Year Leap with Nebraska Football
Offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen believes his sophomore quarterback Dylan Raiola has grown leaps and bounds throughout Nebraska football’s fall camp. "It's different when he's out there, just from the communication, the confidence, just making routine plays and...
Single-Digit Dane Key Making Immediate Impact for Nebraska Football
Nebraska football transfer wide receiver Dane Key is impressing his new team through the first couple weeks of camp. In fact, he’s impressed his teammates so much that he was the leading vote-getter on the team during the single-digit jersey number vote. He will be...
Babcock: It’s Off the Field as Well as On for Nebraska Football
Recollection has it that Jon Hesse recounted this, though as long as I’ve been around Nebraska football, details have become jumbled or lost. But I’ll say it was Hesse. He was a four-year Husker letterman (1993-96) at linebacker, playing on two national championship...
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